Chapter 70: The Ambush on the Mozyri Highway (2)
The 284th Guards Division, the equivalent of two battalions, is advancing in the direction of the road.
Walking through the swamp, shoes are bound to get wet. After the rains, even the dry roads in the swamps were muddy. Yang Mingzhi looked at his subordinates, especially those children, marching in the mud was really embarrassing for them.
Suddenly, a girl screamed loudly, and Yang Mingzhi ran over.
"How are you!"
I saw the girl holding her legs, and a black thing squirmed on her calf, which was clearly a leech! She wanted to pull it away, but it was too slippery.
"Stop!" Yang Mingzhi ordered, "Stupid, do you want this thing to get into your veins?" ”
"But what should I do?" The girl was crying, she was still a warrior. At this moment, Yang Mingzhi was a little skeptical of his prediction, these dolls had experienced queue marching and target shooting, but he never expected that the initial casualty of this army was actually a leech.
Yang Mingzhi was very calm, and he took out a small box from his backpack. This is the box with table salt, and each fighter has one. Salt was sprinkled on the leech, and the thing began to wriggle violently, and soon turned into a mess of scarlet sewage.
"Besica!"
"It's coming, it's coming!"
Star fruit immediately caught up with her husband at the beckoning of her husband, and Yang Mingzhi looked at his current wife, she was dirty. "Did you just fall?"
"No, it was a slip. I'm not good at walking in the mud. ”
Yang Mingzhi shook his head helplessly, it was really worrying to let this girl go free. "You bandage your comrade, her leg is injured. That's it, the troops must get out of the swamp today, you have to move fast. ”
Star fruit watched her husband turn away, he was really majestic, and even a little intimidating. He was about to become a murderer again, and star fruit reluctantly untied his medical kit and bandaged his comrades.
In the evening, the swamp finally walked out. The whole unit rested in a meadow, and some soldiers urgently set up machine-gun positions to guard them, while the sentry sentries were deployed far away from the camp.
Yang Mingzhi took off his shoes, and his shoes and socks were soaked in the pond, and then wrung them clean. It was still far from the road, and the possibility of German activity here was very small, so the troops began to light bonfires. Most of the soldiers, like their commanders, washed their muddy shoes and socks and dried them around the campfire.
The soldiers were exhausted, and simply ate some dry food, and everyone set up a temporary shack, and snored loudly when they put blankets over their bodies.
Yang Mingzhi sat by the bonfire, and Yelenkina came over with bad intentions. She skewered a potato from a twig and roasted it in front of the flame.
"Hey, I heard you were very Bessica today. It's not like you, you love her very much. ”
"It's because of love that I'm her." Yang Mingzhi looked at the flames blankly, "She can't always be under my protection." And those child soldiers, I have to be responsible for a lot of people, and being strict with them is protecting them. ”
Yerentina understood, "Maybe you should accompany her, Besica is really working hard today." ”
"Forget it." Yang Mingzhi pointed his finger, "I found a good guy for her." Natasha, I think these two are like sisters. Yerentina followed the direction of his finger, and saw that the two girls were talking and laughing, and the tiredness of the day did not exist.
Speaking of Natasha, Yang Mingzhi gave her a special task. This girl has a lot of talent, and what she lacks is practical experience. Yang Mingzhi was already dreaming in his mind, Pavlichenko and Zaitsev were too far away, and those legendary snipers should be classified as legends. This Natasha, she may be able to create a legend.
Therefore, this girl's task is to stay with Yang Mingzhi and give her tasks directly after the battle begins, such as shooting the enemy's machine gunners and officers or something.
Early in the morning, the morning horn breaks through the silence, and the breeze blows the earth from north to south, which is really cold.
Yang Mingzhi cooked some hot porridge and couldn't help but shiver. By September, the Russian winter will come. In the Russian part of the Soviet Union, in the autumn of 1941, there was more rain than in previous years, and this year's winter was extremely cold once in a thousand years.
Yang Mingzhi was ready to go, and he inspected the soldiers' bureaus. The veterans quickly regained their spirits, and the militiamen were not very comfortable sleeping in the open, and the children. Yang Mingzhi saw the little star fruit, she and her buddy hugged each other, Natasha, who is also a delicate girl, is it too cold, the two huddle together to keep warm.
He ordered the trumpeter to blow the assembly horn again where the children were sleeping, and the loud noise alarmed everyone.
"The Germans are coming! Three minutes must get dressed and take up arms! Dawai! Dawai! ”
Suddenly, the children were in a hurry, and Yang Mingzhi was still desperately shouting Dawai. Many soldiers came around to watch the excitement of the children, Yang Mingzhi didn't have so much leisure, he just looked at his watch.
"Stop, it's time. Whoever is not ready for battle, you are sorry, dead. ”
The so-called death is only symbolic, but the children are not well assembled, which is really embarrassing.
The troops continued to advance, and the star fruit was a little sullen. Does that man still love her wife? Or is this fight really too critical and he has to be serious?
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi walked at the head of the team, and a platoon of top soldiers was exploring the way about 500 meters ahead. The reconnaissance platoon further ahead, they had already arrived on the road.
These scouts are like owls, and their mission is to keep an eye on the road. The Germans are passing through this highway, and their traffic is not heavy. In about three hours, a convoy will pass by the ambush site.
The scout chose to take the battlefield to a road sandwiched between two woods, surrounded by small dirt slopes. The thatch here grows a meter high, and there are not many small flats. It is perfectly fine to ambush a team of more than a thousand people in the forest, but it is a good place for ambush warfare.
In fact, the best ambush warfare is, of course, condescending, and it is best for the Germans to walk in the mountain stream, and the ambush troops attack on the hillside, as in the Battle of Pingxingguan. It's a pity, it's a pity, there are only hills and vast forests here in Belarus, and the troops can at most learn from the Shentouling ambush of the Eighth Route Army.
The troops continued to advance and finally arrived at the battlefield in the afternoon. The whole team was ambushed in the forest, and Yang Mingzhi rested with his back against a big tree, holding a kettle and drinking happily.
Yerenkina walked over with a hunched body and squatted in front of Yang Mingzhi: "How about it, are we preparing to attack now?" ”
"Nope! Not yet! The team is too tired to fight today. ”
"Not today? Tomorrow? Is it tomorrow? I think let's wait for the enemy convoy to come, we can fight quickly, and we can get out of the battle at night. ”
Yang Mingzhi shook his finger and said with a smile: "Comrade Political Commissar, according to the regulations, you should not interfere in military operations. ”
When Yerenkina heard this, she immediately blushed. "Well, I'll listen to you."
"That's right. The labor expedition was originally a taboo for soldiers, and it was already very dangerous for us to go deep alone. Now the soldiers have to recharge, and besides, we have to add some spice to the battlefield. ”
"Condiments? Is it some trap? Yerentina suddenly thought of landmines, but the troops did not carry mines at all.
"It's a mine, but it's a very special mine."
Yang Mingzhi advocated freedom, and he had watched "Tunnel Warfare" and "Mine Warfare" many times back then, and those movies were serious war teaching films! He planned the trick of the Eighth Route Army and the early People's Liberation Army, which was to use the grenade as a mine, and when the enemy passed, the soldiers laid an ambush thirty meters away, and violently pulled the hemp rope to delay the fuse to ignite.
Yerentina listened to his simple statement, this Chinese is really a madman, is this how they use grenades? It occurred to her that this crazy creature had ordered the blacksmith village to make some grenades filled with gas.
"It's crazy! Simply crazy! Are you going to shorten the battlefield to only thirty meters? ”
"That's fine." Yang Mingzhi looked at this person disappreciably. "I actually want to save some ammo. An ordinary soldier can throw a grenade thirty meters away, or even fifty meters, and if we use it intensively, the effect will be very good. After that, a mortar feast. ”
This is the planning of the battle, and it sounds like the various weapons must be perfectly matched.
"Well, when the fighters have finished eating, you will definitely have a pre-war meeting. Leave your tongue to speak then. ”
Yang Mingzhi smiled confidently, this Yerengina was about to leave, and she was pulled by a hand. "Wait, comrade. Please, call Betsica and Natasha to me. “
"Okay, I'll do as you wish."